There’s something to be said for truth in advertising. For example: Animalistic, the new EP from the Sydney hardcore band Primitive Blast. I don’t need to tell you shit about Animalistic. The band is called Primitive Blast. The EP is called Animalistic. The cover art is the chaotic black-ink-and-Xerox nightmare that you see above. You […]
Perry Farrell to Release Career-Spanning Box Set
Perry Farrell will release a career-spanning box set that will look outside of his work in Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros. The set will encompass his entire 35-year career. Titled Perry Farrell- The Glitz; The Glamour, the collection features 68 tracks and a release bills it, cements Farrell’s status as the “Godfather of Alternative Rock.” Included in […]
Stream Ceremony Side Project Spice’s Excellent Self-Titled Debut Album
For the past 15 years, Ross Farrar has led the California punk band Ceremony. In that time, Ceremony have had a hell of a musical journey, going from feral powerviolence to glimmering dream-pop, making huge changes with every record. Now, Farrar has a whole new band, and their debut album doesn’t sound like anything that […]
Rod Wave – “Through The Wire”
Just in the past nine months or so, the young and profoundly sad Florida sing-rapper Rod Wave has emerged as a major word-of-mouth sensation. Since he’s released the albums Ghetto Gospel and Pray 4 Love, Rod Wave has found huge audiences for his bluesy ruminations. And today, he’s come out with a new song about […]
Watch 10-Year-Old Viral Musician Cover Audioslave
If you’re wondering what the future of rock music looks like, Nandi Bushell can show you. She dropped a video covering Audioslave’s “Cochise.” While cover videos aren’t a new thing, the 10-year-old British-Zulu musician shows all her musical skills and played the bass, the drums and a special guitar that was gifted to her by […]
The Lawrence Arms Release Extremely Satisfying New Album 'Skeleton Coast': Stream
Chicago punks the Lawrence Arms have been making beefy, melodic, catchy ragers for more than 20 years. They are very, very good at it. Today, the Lawrence Arms have released the new LP Skeleton Coast. It’s their first album since 2014’s Metropole and their seventh overall. (It’s also their first since frontman Brendan Kelly revealed […]
Sylvan Esso – “What If”
A few months ago, in the early weeks of quarantine, Sylvan Esso, the folksy Durham electro-pop duo of Mountain Man’s Amelia Meath and Megafaun’s Nick Sanborn, released the concert film and documentary WITH. This was good news, especially when you consider that this band absolutely goes off live. But one thing that Sylvan Esso haven’t […]
Soundgarden Drop Benefit Show Counterclaim Suit Against Vicky Cornell
The surviving members of Soundgarden have dropped part of their counterclaim against Vicky Cornell, which they filed in May regarding the 2019 I Am the Highway benefit show, after being threatened with sanctions by her legal team. In the original filing, the band accused Cornell of using the funds from the show for “personal purposes for herself and […]
Hey, A New Joey Bada$$ EP Featuring Pusha T, Better Check This Out
Joey Bada$$ has popped up from time to time in recent years — staring at a solar eclipse, guesting with artists like Flatbush Zombies and Chloe x Halle, acting as Inspectah Deck in Hulu’s Wu-Tang series, participating in the supergroup Beast Coast — but he hasn’t released a proper project since 2017’s All-Amerikkkan Badass. That […]
Oddisee Releases Surprise EP 'Odd Cure': Stream
The consistently great Brooklyn-via-Maryland rapper and producer Oddisee has been a bit quiet lately; he hasn’t released an album since his underrated 2017 joint The Iceberg. Today, though, Oddisee has returned with Odd Cure, a new EP recorded under quarantine and released without warning. Oddisee performed in Thailand just before the pandemic arrived, and he […]